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policy adviser for the campaign and once president, obama appointed him. the president noted when he announced him as his pick, mcdonough has been involved in every major foreign policy decision including the call to get osama bin laden. >> i thought denis decided to like pull all-nighters. the truth is nobody outworks denis mcdonough. >> here he is. mr. mcdonough, welcome to "meet the press." >> thanks for having me. >> what is your key part of your goal for this job? how do you approach it? >> my approach is focus on something that jim baker told me the other day. reach out to several of the other chiefs of staff. he said as long as you're focused and not on chief, you're going to be okay. i got to tell you i'm working with a staff that is excellent. i'm really honored to be part of it. honored the president has laid this responsibility on me and looking forward to doing it. >> i was mentioning before we went on the hit. the asteroid that came near the united states is stuff you have to talk about. >> the fact is that we're going to keep working on this
policy adviser for the campaign and once president, obama appointed him. the president noted when he announced him as his pick, mcdonough has been involved in every major foreign policy decision including the call to get osama bin laden. >> i thought denis decided to like pull all-nighters. the truth is nobody outworks denis mcdonough. >> here he is. mr. mcdonough, welcome to "meet the press." >> thanks for having me. >> what is your key part of your goal for...
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when he decided to make a run for the white house in 2008 he tapped mcdonough to be his foreign policy adviser to the campaign. the president announced him as his pick, mcdonough involved in every major foreign policy decision, including the call to get osama bin laden. >> i actually begun to think that denis likes pulling all-nighters. the truth is nobody outworks denis mcdonough. >> here he is. mr. mcdonough, welcome to "meet the press." >> thanks so much for having me, david. >> this is a tough job. you're the fourth one to have it. what is the key, part of your goal for this job as the president has a narrow window? how do you approach it? >> my approach is to focus on something jim baker told me just the other day, actually. reach out to several of the other chiefs of staff in the past and he said as long as you you focused on the staff and not on the chief, you are going to be okay. i'm working with a staff that is excellent. i'm real honored the president has laid this responsibility to me and i look forward to doing it. >> from the expected to unexpected. i was mentioning befor
when he decided to make a run for the white house in 2008 he tapped mcdonough to be his foreign policy adviser to the campaign. the president announced him as his pick, mcdonough involved in every major foreign policy decision, including the call to get osama bin laden. >> i actually begun to think that denis likes pulling all-nighters. the truth is nobody outworks denis mcdonough. >> here he is. mr. mcdonough, welcome to "meet the press." >> thanks so much for...
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policy and their disagreements on it. >> i can tell you there were a lot of reporters that were answering to be on this trip to brussels. >> the reasons that are being shown to hold up this nomination, it's not about afghanistan, it's not about a draw john -- >> that's not true. >> in all fairness, what you just mentioned very parochial reasons by the republican party to make this into a dance because chuck hagel didn't like john mccain -- >> there are policy issues here, let's not forget. they did talk about his refusal to denounce hesbola as a terrorist organization. those are legitimate policy concerns which call into question his ability to lead the defense department. >> i want to move into another topic. one of your former boss be, mr. rove. it seems as if republicans are acting what's in their own interest, whether they like the rove project or don't like the rove project. if this works, this looks like this is going to be a very ugly public process in the short-term. is that fair? >> it looks like it's going to be ugly but karl rove has every right, just like the club for growth o
policy and their disagreements on it. >> i can tell you there were a lot of reporters that were answering to be on this trip to brussels. >> the reasons that are being shown to hold up this nomination, it's not about afghanistan, it's not about a draw john -- >> that's not true. >> in all fairness, what you just mentioned very parochial reasons by the republican party to make this into a dance because chuck hagel didn't like john mccain -- >> there are policy...
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of the people of the world so say it with me the us foreign policy is a blowback inducing homicidal bull in a cultural religious and geo political china shop change. there was handed. down. to the family. sitting. around. the world. it was not right. i served in iraq in two thousand and four in two thousand and six i was in the second battle of. allusion november of two thousand and four as a human being and as a person who has a heart i can't lie to myself anybody else and say that we had a reason to be there that there's a reason for the million iraqis that go to five thousand troops said that we say we're the greatest country in the world but we go and kill you know people in their country but we don't stop genocide in africa we don't help people that we can help that would be the greatest country in the world if we can save a million people instead of killing them and people if you're not convinced our foreign policy is morally bankrupt perhaps we should talk about money taxpayers in united states have need one point four trillion dollars for total war spending in iraq and afgha
of the people of the world so say it with me the us foreign policy is a blowback inducing homicidal bull in a cultural religious and geo political china shop change. there was handed. down. to the family. sitting. around. the world. it was not right. i served in iraq in two thousand and four in two thousand and six i was in the second battle of. allusion november of two thousand and four as a human being and as a person who has a heart i can't lie to myself anybody else and say that we had a...
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foreign policy of policy basically intolerant of an ill turn to do vision alternative claude having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much of your talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty times the word iran one hundred eight times by comparison of ghana's than the war that the u.s. is fighting right now just twenty six mentions of course those are just words but they may very well show how eager many many in washington are to discuss new wars without even having finished the old ones. libya is braced for fresh on rest the second anniversary of the revolution that toppled gadhafi is being held under the threat of violence security is tight and foreigners are leaving on mess the first protests against the current government are expected in b
foreign policy of policy basically intolerant of an ill turn to do vision alternative claude having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much of your talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the...
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foreign policy of policy basically intolerant of an ill targeted vision alternative long having said all of that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much of your talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty times the word iran one hundred eight times by comparison of ghana's than the war that the u.s. is fighting right now just twenty six mentions of course those are just words but they may very well show how eager many many in washington are to discuss new wars without even having finished the old ones. the british government's programme of cuts has resulted in a drastic drop in the number of police officers to the lowest level in over a decade and radical reform package is already sparked many security questions or he had a chance to ask m.p.'s on both s
foreign policy of policy basically intolerant of an ill targeted vision alternative long having said all of that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much of your talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the...
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traditionally israel has been able to control the united states foreign policy in the middle east. and whether or not the offense that the israeli prime minister gave to president obama will change that or whether the president obama himself has enough power to change that remains to be seen but so far you go hasn't been confirmed. right now you know republican senators say that they want more answers from hagel but how much is this about information and how much of this is about embarrassing the president and none of it is about information it's about showing their subservience to israel they have to show that if they don't they get cut off from campaign funds and the israel lobby is very powerful and has tremendous influence in the media it can support the. the opposition candidate it can drive anyone in the senate or the house out of office and so what you want you witnessing is the united states congress showing that it is subservient it is a good friend of israel whether in the in after shoring all this. and placating israelis they then vote in favor of hagel that could be an
traditionally israel has been able to control the united states foreign policy in the middle east. and whether or not the offense that the israeli prime minister gave to president obama will change that or whether the president obama himself has enough power to change that remains to be seen but so far you go hasn't been confirmed. right now you know republican senators say that they want more answers from hagel but how much is this about information and how much of this is about embarrassing...
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foreign policy basically intolerant of the no eternity of vision alternative thought having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much war talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty times the word iran one hundred eight times by comparison of ghana's than the war that the u.s. is fighting right now just twenty six mentions of course those are just words but they may very well. show how eager many meeting in washington are to discuss new wars without even having to finish the old ones. there are some people out there saying that being a republican was a nominate for the post by obama so that obama down the road can blame him as a republican if indeed foreign policy doesn't it will see its best of times of certainly the theories around. in wash
foreign policy basically intolerant of the no eternity of vision alternative thought having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much war talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war...
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foreign policy basically intolerant of an ill targeted vision alternative song and having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much of your talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty times the word iran one hundred eight times by comparison of ghana's than the war that the u.s. is fighting right now just twenty six mentions of course those are just words but they may very well show. how eager many meeting in washington are to discuss new wars without even having finished the old once. he's got nature to kind reporting that assistant secretary of the us treasury under president reagan out of a poll craig roberts he told us how some of hagan's previous comments of ultimately backfired against him she had. made a mistake some years ago when he sai
foreign policy basically intolerant of an ill targeted vision alternative song and having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much of your talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war...
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of his although the president try to speak in most generic terms on foreign policy one could notice a change in the way he was talking about the results of the spring the aftermath of things he said it's quote unquote messy also said that the u.s. can't dictate the course of changing countries like egypt we remember how the u.s. was cheerleading for revolutions in those countries and maybe the change they see now is not much to their liking the president was very quickly cautious he mentioned syria saying the u.s. supports those in the syrian opposition that respects the rights of all syrians but with terrorists flooding into syria and with radical forces doing a lot of the fighting for the opposition there it's really hard to see much respect for all syrians right at the moment the president mentioned north korea saying north korea's provocative actions show how much the u.s. needs missile defense he also said mr asia will be seeking further reduction of nuclear arsenals with russia it's a foreign policy goal that president obama announced in his state of the union speech without g
of his although the president try to speak in most generic terms on foreign policy one could notice a change in the way he was talking about the results of the spring the aftermath of things he said it's quote unquote messy also said that the u.s. can't dictate the course of changing countries like egypt we remember how the u.s. was cheerleading for revolutions in those countries and maybe the change they see now is not much to their liking the president was very quickly cautious he mentioned...
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clinton had no background in foreign policy, no interest in the foreign policy. people say they went to georgetown, the school really wasn't good enough as i am concerned. i hope i am not offending anyone in georgetown she put together a security team all of them were gone within a year or two for the most part when you look at christopher and the cia was a very peculiar appointment. he did something that needs to be corrected. he was in the foreign policy bureaucracy as i am concerned he brought to the right wing and abolishing the arms control and disarmed the agency. those we need in washington for the making of policy and he expanded nato you're taking the military and a that is a factor or not and bring more members to draw closer to russia and even bring in as george bush did the former hud republics of the soviet union into this alliance and you wonder why the russians are upset about this and he lost his nerve on the things the country needed to do in terms of international agreements need to be a part of the accord and signed a comprehensive test ban tre
clinton had no background in foreign policy, no interest in the foreign policy. people say they went to georgetown, the school really wasn't good enough as i am concerned. i hope i am not offending anyone in georgetown she put together a security team all of them were gone within a year or two for the most part when you look at christopher and the cia was a very peculiar appointment. he did something that needs to be corrected. he was in the foreign policy bureaucracy as i am concerned he...
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foreign policy is a fairly mixed bag of issues are being said that by a by the american president of course and that big news on afghanistan top the address president obama himself saying that after over a decade troops are coming home by the end of twenty four teen obama pointing out that there are two missions at hand now preparing afghan forces to take over so that the country does not slip into chaos again those were his words the key words here again as if it's not as if it's now a stable place just today reports coming in. that ten civilians were killed in a nato strike targeting taliban insurgents now while obama spent most of his speech talking about the economy and taxes he failed to mention that so far the u.s. has invested over one hundred billion dollars in reconstruction of afghanistan and that this year it's expected another thirty billion could be spent in aid as well this as the afghan state is rated one of the most corrupt in the world despite red flags from watchdogs monitoring the aid directly given to the government there's no way of ensuring where all this money
foreign policy is a fairly mixed bag of issues are being said that by a by the american president of course and that big news on afghanistan top the address president obama himself saying that after over a decade troops are coming home by the end of twenty four teen obama pointing out that there are two missions at hand now preparing afghan forces to take over so that the country does not slip into chaos again those were his words the key words here again as if it's not as if it's now a stable...
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foreign policy basically intolerant of the mill tardive vision alternative song and having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much of your talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty times the word iran one hundred eight times by comparison of ghana's than the war that the u.s. is fighting right now just twenty six mentions of course those are just words but they may very well show. how eager many meeting in washington are to discuss new wars without even having finished field once. he's got an education reporting that the assistant secretary of the us treasury under president reagan and that of a paul craig roberts he told us how some of haggles previous comments of ultimately backfired against him. she hated. made the mistake some years ago w
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policy team he in the past years we've had foreign policies but never necessarily have the had this kind of substantive expertise that you have. >> we have on the foreign policy team quite experienced foreign policy, she had been the secretary of defense before and vice president cheney had been the chief of staff and the white house, colin powell had been chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the national security we had a lot of expertise but i really to this day not quite sure why sometimes the personalities didn't jell. i think it was the times that set the precedent. we think about people with internal dynamics. islamic think about the team have strong views because strong views are important you don't want a president who's just hearing one side of the story but think that the team dynamics. >> let's talk a little about latin america and the caribbean to the debt is a success to focus on latin america and the caribbean as a region in developing a u.s. policy given the fact that so many of the country's different in so many of them. i think about latin america and the carib
policy team he in the past years we've had foreign policies but never necessarily have the had this kind of substantive expertise that you have. >> we have on the foreign policy team quite experienced foreign policy, she had been the secretary of defense before and vice president cheney had been the chief of staff and the white house, colin powell had been chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the national security we had a lot of expertise but i really to this day not quite sure why...
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of his although the president try to speak in most generic terms on foreign policy one could notice a change in the way he was talking about the results of the spring the aftermath of things he said it's quote unquote messy you also said that the u.s. can't dictate the course of changing countries like egypt we remember how the u.s. was cheerleading for revolutions in those countries and maybe the change they see now is not much to their liking the president was very quickly incautiously mentioned syria saying the u.s. supports those in the syrian opposition that respects the rights of all syrians but with terrorists flooding into syria and with radical forces doing a lot of the fighting for the opposition there it's really hard to see much respect for all syrians right at the moment the president mentioned north korea saying north korea's provocative actions show how much the u.s. needs missile defense he also said it ministration will be seeking further reduction of nuclear arsenals with russia it's a foreign policy goal that president obama announced in his state of the union spe
of his although the president try to speak in most generic terms on foreign policy one could notice a change in the way he was talking about the results of the spring the aftermath of things he said it's quote unquote messy you also said that the u.s. can't dictate the course of changing countries like egypt we remember how the u.s. was cheerleading for revolutions in those countries and maybe the change they see now is not much to their liking the president was very quickly incautiously...
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foreign policy basically intolerant of the no eternity of vision alternative thought having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much war talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war and just during the confirmation hearing the word war was mentioned one hundred twenty times the word iran one hundred eight times by comparison of ghana's than the war that the u.s. is fighting right now just twenty six mentions of course those are just words but they may very well. show how eager many meeting in washington are to discuss new wars without even having to finish the old ones. there are some people out there saying that being a republican was a nominate for the post by obama so that obama down the road can blame him as a republican if indeed foreign policy doesn't it will see its best of times and certainly the theories around the
foreign policy basically intolerant of the no eternity of vision alternative thought having said all that the president's decision to nominate chuck hagel of course knowing the position chuck hagel had taken before was also seen as a message president obama had said previously that there is too much war talk going on and maybe by nominating chuck hagel he wanted to play down because too many people here in washington are too eager to talk war and just during the confirmation hearing the word...